Last spring, the Flaming Lips recorded an EP with Neon Indian called The Flaming Lips With Neon Indian. On New Year’s Day, Neon Indian opened for the Lips in Oklahoma City as part of the Lips’ New Year’s Freak Out No. 5 (which also included Yoko Ono). Last night, Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo Tweeted a video of the Lips and Neon Indian playing “Is David Bowie Dying?” from the EP at the New Year’s Day show. Watch it below.
In conjunction with the New Year’s Freak Out, Flaming Lips and Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band released a four-track collaborative EP. It included “Atlas Eets Christmas”, “Brain of Heaven”, “The Fear Litany”, and “Do It!”. Listen to all four tracks on the YouTube page of Lips fansite Slow Nerve Action.